How do you feel about the ending?

Ptolemy's Gate

How do you feel about the ending

I loved it!! Nat's finally dead!
I thought it was ok....
WHY IS HE DEAD!!!?!?!?!
I've seen better....
I would like it more if Nat didn't die
I HATE IT SO MUCH! IT WAS HORRIBLE!
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Nick76 Mouler
27 Jan 11 - 09:57
Ptolemy I wrote:I wasnt to thrilled with the ending, as I was just starting to like Nathaniel, him having finally started to develop into a likeable character.
Oh, Im new to the forum, so please dont flame me over any lackings in knowledge. :new: :pac:
If I really wanted to flame you, I'd do so for a lack of punctuation or apostrophes, maybe, certainly not for a lack of knowledge. We are all here to share and learn.

Incidentally, welcome.

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27 Jan 11 - 19:33
Nick76 wrote:If I really wanted to flame you, I'd do so for a lack of punctuation or apostrophes
Come on, it was pretty good by internet standards :P
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Nero Higher Spirit
28 Jan 11 - 00:42
David Cat wrote:
Nick76 wrote:If I really wanted to flame you, I'd do so for a lack of punctuation or apostrophes
Come on, it was pretty good by internet standards :P
Dude, with the exception of Datsyuk and I, everyone on here has perfect grammar.
28 Jan 11 - 06:31
Nero wrote:
David Cat wrote:
Nick76 wrote:If I really wanted to flame you, I'd do so for a lack of punctuation or apostrophes
Come on, it was pretty good by internet standards :P
Dude, with the exception of Datsyuk and I, everyone on here has perfect grammar.
Shh...
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28 Jan 11 - 13:41
Nero wrote:
David Cat wrote:
Nick76 wrote:If I really wanted to flame you, I'd do so for a lack of punctuation or apostrophes
Come on, it was pretty good by internet standards :P
Dude, with the exception of Datsyuk and I, everyone on here has perfect grammar.
Your forgotting I.
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11 Mar 11 - 14:43
I honesty have to say I cried... I kinda developed a crush for Nat and don't ask me why.

but anyway... IT WAS THE GREATEST ENDING IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER. hommaayghhad.

and yes I agree to the reply of ... whoever that was... but I wish Kitty and Nat just died together...
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11 Mar 11 - 14:45
Welcome to the forum Rekhyyyyyt!

And yes, it was the greatest ending in the history of forever. =D
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<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.
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11 Mar 11 - 14:50
thanks for the welcome!... I'm feeling a little lost though. *shudder*
well I just wanted to state that I cried my eyes out so I guess that explains A LOT of things. :D
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11 Mar 11 - 18:20
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28 Mar 11 - 00:03
i thought it was pretty good!!
26 Jun 11 - 02:36
Tuba_Lover wrote:Just wondering what you guys thought! Personally I like the first choice.....
*horrified*, what do you have against Nathaniel???
Well, I think a happy ending for this particular series would be cheesie, so I guess it's the only way... but why couldn't Kitty have died instead of Nat? *cries* (They should add a cry emoticon on the side) Although I'm really glad Bart survived at least, though I like Nat better...
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Ashwini Mite
9 Jul 11 - 18:17
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:
gargmanika30,Mar 18 2007 wrote: hi, i am feeling really very odd writing coz this is the first time and weird as it may seem, am absolutely new to all this. have just finished the trilogy and though when i started, it didnt fascinate me all that much and then zap, it jumped at me and clung like hot wax. i was upset that nat died and that was what prompted me to seek this site out and make the effort to write. i dont know whether or not mr. stroud would even read my mail , let alone write back, but since i wanted to wite, so i have.
Hey, I am a first timer too. I was really shocked Nat died. Esp after he turned good. It took me more than an hour to complete the last ten pages or so(& I am a very fast reader). I was just shaking and crying at the same time & rereading the same lines. And Nat after all gave Bartimaeus his last gift. He just SHOULD'NT have died!
I did the same thing, precisely.I mean, shaking and re-reading the lines-- "So much for your promises" and "I think he rather knew anyway".
I skipped my dinner that night & these lines kept nagging at for the next whole day but eventually I tried to see the brighter side of it -- BART'S ALIVE and That means we can be sure of having more of his actions and sarcasm in the near future.
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13 Jul 11 - 13:46
:welcome: to the forum!

Hehe. I had skipped dinner that night too. I was really depressed that Nat died. But that is possibly the best ending to the series.

Heard of Ring of Solomon? It is a prequel to the trilogy.
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"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
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ash_drm Mite
23 Jul 11 - 13:11
mandrake was finally becoming nat ! how could he just die like that !
:/
i was upset when nat died and that's what prompted me to go in search of other bart fans just to have someone to cry over with.
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Chiz Ghul
27 Jul 11 - 20:25
Well I finished Ptolemys gate yearrrs ago for the first time but I still feel very sad over it so here you go :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Zibraz Mouler
7 Sep 11 - 01:04
As I was reading the book I noticed how Nathaniel started to admire Kitty, and started to realise he liked Bartimaeus as a friend. I was hoping before he died he would get a kiss or at least the Djinni to say he is his friend.

When Nathaniel said "Bartimaeus........ You have been a good servant" I knew what was gonna happen and I started to cry. He accepted his fate and in that way I believe he was more honer able that Ptolemy
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6 Nov 11 - 11:46
Ianna wrote:It would have been better had Kitty died.

And Nat lived.
I think the ending will not be as powerful as it is if Nat lived. There's so many words unsaid between Bartimaeus and Nathaniel, and the fact that until the end, they weren't able to show how much they value each other pretty much makes it all heartbreaking. And also, the true Nathaniel, that little boy behind the power-driven facade, wouldn't really want to go back to all those filthy stuff of politics.
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19 Nov 11 - 11:00
I agree with a lot of people that the ending was great, but I didn't really rejoice about the fact that Nathaniel died. I went for "I thought it was okay..." since that was the closest. (I think)
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30 Jan 12 - 23:08
Sentynel wrote:None of the above. It was good, but it doesn't mean I think "Yay, Nat's finally dead!"
I feel the same way. Only the ending was not only good but great.
Quin Mouler
5 Feb 12 - 07:32
i put 'i would like it more if he hadn't died' . that said, i totally understand why it had to happen in regards to the plot. reading it again for the millionth time eight years after you first picked it up as a 13 year old its very obvious with the last ptolemy chapter that nat will die and it's poetic and needed.

so i wouldn't change it. that didn't stop my fourteen year old self crying for four days after i'd read it though. id never cried so much in my life. haha and i didn't pick it back up for another year cause i hated jonathan stroud for killing off nat. i would've done anything to change that end after i'd read it. i only noticed the correlation after reading it again. then i saw it was the perfect ending.

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